A new species of Palorchestidae (Marsupialia) from the late middle to early late Miocene Encore Local Fauna, Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland

Memoirs of the Queensland Museum

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-185

  Black, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Late Miocene; Palorchestes; Palorchestidae; Propalorchestes; Riversleigh

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MIOCENE; PALORCHESTES ANULUS; PALORCHESTID;

AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, RIVERSLEIGH;

EID: 0031457032     PISSN: 00798835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. APLIN, K. & ARCHER, M. 1987. Recent advances in marsupial systematics with a new syncretic classification. Pp. xv-lxxii. In M. Archer (ed.) Possums and opossums: studies in evolution. (Surrey Beatty and Sons and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney)
2. ARCHER, M. 1984. The Australian marsupial radiation. Pp. 633- 808. In Archer, M. & Clayton, G. (eds), Vertebrate zoogeography and evolution in Australasia. (Hesperian Press: Perth).
3. ARCHER, M. & BARTHOLOMAI, A. 1978. Tertiary mammals of Australia: a synoptic review. Alcheringa 2: 1-19.
4. ARCHER, M., HAND, S.J. & GODTHELP, H. 1995. Tertiary environmental and biotic change in Australia. Pp. 77-90. In Vrba, E.S., Denton, G.H., Partridge, T.C. & Burckle, L.H. (eds), Palaeoclimate and evolution with emphasis on human origins. (Yale University Press: New Haven).
5. GILLESPIE, A. 1997. Priscileo roskellyae sp. nov. (Thylacoleonidae, Marsupialia) from the Oligocene-Miocene of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41: 321-327.
6. LUCKETT, W. P. 1993. An ontogenetic assessment of dental homologies in therian mammals. Pp. 182-204. In Szalay, F.S., Novacek, M.J. & McKenna, M.C. (eds), Mammal phylogeny: Mesozoic differentiation, multituberculates, monotremes, early therians and marsupials. (Springer-Verlag: New York).
7. MACKNESS, B. 1995. Palorchestes selestiae, a new species of palorchestid marsupial from the early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, northeastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38(2): 603-609.
8. MURRAY, P. 1986. Propalorchestes novaculacephalus gen. et sp. nov., a new palorchestid (Diprotodontoidea: Marsupialia) from the middle Miocene Camfield Beds, Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 3(1): 195-211.
9. MURRAY, P. 1990. Primitive marsupial tapirs (Propalorchestes novaculacephalus Murray and P. ponticulus (Marsupialia: Palorchestidae sp. nov.) from the mid-Miocene of north Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 7: 39-51.
10. RICH, T.H., ARCHER, M. & TEDFORD, R.H. 1978. Raemeotherium yatkolai gen. et sp. nov., a primitive diprotodontid from the medial Miocene of South Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 39: 85-91.
11. STIRTON, R.A. 1967. The Diprotodontidae from the Ngapakaldi Fauna, South Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 85: 1-44.
12. TEDFORD, R.H. & WOODBURNE, M.O. 1987. The Ilariidae, a new family of vombatiform marsupials from Miocene strata of South Australia and an evaluation of the homolgy of molar cusps in the Diprotodontidae. Pp. 401-418. In Archer, M. (ed.), Possums and opossums: studies in evolution. (Surrey Beatty & Sons and the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney).
13. WROE, S. 1996. An investigation of phylogeny in the giant extinct rat kangaroo Ekaltadeta (Propleopinae, Potoroidae, Marsupialia). Journal of Paleontology 70(4): 681-690.
14. WROE, S. 1997 Mayigriphus orbus gen. et sp. nov. a Miocene dasyuromorphian from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41: 439-438.